Directly opposite the North Gate is the straightest and widest Beimen Street in Fengtian.
On the right side of Beimen Street, 500 meters away from the city gate, there is a five-story reinforced concrete building. It was the office building of Fengtian Police Department during the Beiyang period. The building was still very impressive. Later, the three northeastern provinces were occupied. , this building became the office building of a Japanese company.
After the Chahar Independent Regiment regained Fengtian, this building was unconditionally taken back, and now it has become the headquarters of the Second Battalion. In terms of the luxury of the headquarters alone, He Shuya's Second Battalion headquarters is even in Xu Rui Above the regiment headquarters, because Xu Rui's regiment headquarters requisitioned the Japanese Gendarmerie building, which was just a three-story old building.
At this moment, He Shuya and Liu Chen were standing in the observation post on the top of the battalion building, holding binoculars and looking at the large gap 500 meters ahead. Although the smoke and dust covering the gap in the city wall had not completely dissipated, compared with When the city wall had just collapsed, the smoke and dust had become much lighter now, and at least the gap could be vaguely seen.
"Coming!" Liuchen suddenly shouted, "The little devil has already reached the gap."
When He Shuya heard this, he quickly raised his binoculars and took a casual look at the gap. Sure enough, he saw that several Japanese soldiers had climbed up the gap with bayonets in hand. The first thing these Japanese soldiers did after climbing into the gap was to lie down quickly. , to avoid being hit by bullets fired from unknown places, but their worries were completely unnecessary, because there was no gunfire at all.
After a while, the few Japs who were lying on the ground got up again and looked carefully at the situation in the gap. They found that all the buildings within fifty meters of the city wall had been demolished, so they appeared bare. At that moment, the Japs completely Relieved, one of the Japanese soldiers, Chief Cao, turned around and waved to the outside of the city.
After a moment, a black barrel slowly emerged from the gap.
Immediately afterwards, the creaking sound of the crawler tracks passed over the city wall and entered the city. The gun barrel protruding from the gap became longer and longer. Finally, the turret at the back and the entire tank body were exposed. However, this tank is obviously different from the Japanese Type 95 tank, and it is also different from the Type 97 tank.
"Damn it!" Liuchen cursed and said, "It's really a T-34 tank!"
In the lightning operation against North China, the Second Battalion often cooperated with the tank battalion. Therefore, the officers and soldiers of the Second Battalion should not be too clear about the appearance of the T-34 tank. The tank had just barely appeared in half its outline. It can be recognized at a glance. Except for the different caliber of the main gun, it is almost identical to the T-34b tank equipped by the tank battalion.
He Shuya said happily: "The regiment leader has guessed again. Ishihara Wan'er's trump card is indeed the T-34 tank!"
Liuchen's expression suddenly became solemn again, and he turned around and asked He Shuya: "Batalion Commander, the T-34 tank is much stronger than the Japs' Type 97 tank. Our 60 fire will definitely not be able to penetrate the 120 tank." Fire can penetrate it, but the problem is that we have too few 120 fires, and the whole battalion only has six of them!"
"What are you afraid of?" He Shuya said, "The little devil has a trump card, don't we?"
"You mean the anti-infantry directional mine?" Liuchen said, "I don't know if this thing works well."
"We'll know soon if it's good or not." He Shuya looked confident. He didn't know whether he was really confident or just to stabilize the morale of the army. He then said to Liu Chen, "Liu Zi, tell the Second Company not to carry it to death. It symbolizes They retreat after a short resistance. This is the first attack after the Japanese entered the city. It would be a pity not to take advantage of it."
Liuchen asked: "Batalion Commander, are you holding back some big move again?"
"Stop talking nonsense." He Shuya said, "Hurry up and convey the order."
"Yes!" Liuchen quickly stood at attention, saluted, and then left in a hurry.
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The one attacking from the north gate was the Fourth Infantry Regiment of the Second Division, and the coordinated attack was the Second Armored Regiment of the First Armored Division. The captains of the two regiments had already arrived outside the gap in the city wall. Huizheng leaned on the ground with his saber, watching with complacency as the torrent of steel under his men flowed through the gap and poured into Fengtian City like a tide.
The captain of the 4th Infantry Regiment is named Yamaguchi Tsuguo. He is very short, only 1.6 meters at best, but his voice is surprisingly loud. He turned his head and said to Nagata Koyama, the captain of the 2nd Armored Regiment: "Nagata-kun, no If something unexpected happens, you can have lunch at the Fengtian Gendarmerie at noon today, and by the evening, Fengtian should have recovered everything."
"Suoga." Nagata Koyama said with deep approval, "After the previous six days of brutal street fighting, Xu Rui's troops have been severely damaged. Now they can no longer organize a decent resistance. What's more, this time, we still have The deployment of T-34 tanks captured from the Soviets made it even worse for the Chinese Army."
While the two old Japanese were talking, a signal soldier hurriedly came down from the gap.
The ones who came were the signal soldiers of the Fourth Infantry Regiment. After entering the gap, they came directly to Yamaguchi Jiro.
"Your Excellency, Colonel!" The Signal Corps paused heavily, and then reported breathlessly, "The First Infantry Brigade reports that it has successfully controlled the two hundred meters area within the North Gate, and has only encountered weak resistance from the Chinese Army. Now the First Infantry Brigade has The Fourth Infantry Squadron of the brigade is rapidly advancing towards the center of the city."
The two old devils immediately burst into laughter.
After finishing laughing, Nagata Koyama turned to Yamaguchi Jiro and said: "Nagata-kun, what did I just say? I said that it was impossible for the Chinese Army to organize a decent resistance. As expected, it turned out that it was impossible to organize a decent resistance. It seems that your previous I guess it's a bit too conservative, I don't think we can take back Fengtian before noon, even in the evening."
"Soga." Yamaguchi Jiro was also very happy, because no matter what, it was their 4th Infantry Regiment that was responsible for the main attack this time, and the 2nd Armored Regiment was only fighting in coordination, so he must be credited with the first attack to break the city. On top of Yamaguchi Jiro's head, he immediately said to the signal soldier, "Order, the First Infantry Battalion should not have any scruples and move forward without any worries!"
"Hai!" The signal soldier paused again, turned around and hurried away.
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At the headquarters of the second battalion.
He Shuya has come down from the observation post on the top floor and returned to the war room. In any case, he is the commander of the second battalion, not the commander of the observation post, so unless he personally leads the troops into battle, he must stay in the war room most of the time. Here, otherwise the entire army would be in chaos
"Is the stretcher team here?"
"Please tell Captain He that before the battle starts, let the fellow villagers seize the time to eat and sleep. Once the battle starts, they will no longer have time to eat, let alone sleep."
"There is traffic congestion in Tunnel No. 1? What happened to Lao Cao? Send me an order to prioritize the supply of military supplies! Until the military supplies have been transported, everything else should be put aside for the time being!"
"Is the guard platoon ready? Tell Platoon Leader Zhang that this is the first battle and must be fought well! So don't save any mines for me, keep them open and bury them!"
Although He Shuya is young, he has been the battalion commander for almost two years and is very comfortable in command.
Suddenly, there was a sound of hurried footsteps outside the war room, and then Liuchen hurried in.
"Battal Commander!" Liuchen gasped, "The little devil has crossed Shahe Street and is less than a hundred meters away from the battalion headquarters!"
"Really?" He Shuya turned around and walked to the window after hearing this. The windows of the war room were originally covered with glass, but during the Japanese air force's air raid, all the windows were shattered, so now only one window is left. Through the bare and empty wooden window frames, you can have a panoramic view of the wide and straight Beimen Street in front of you.
Looking closely, I saw that the Japanese forward troops had advanced to the intersection of Shahe Street. Moreover, the Japanese forward troops were quite large. There was at least one infantry squadron with nearly 200 Japanese soldiers and six T-34 tanks. Leading from the front, the entire offensive formation was stretched nearly a hundred meters, so it looked very sparse visually.
That kind of dense formation will only appear in movies and TV dramas, but it is impossible to appear in actual combat. Even in street fighting, there will be no dense infantry formation.
But what does it matter? The Chahar Independent Regiment is full of landmines!
He Shuya's eyes quickly turned to the left and right sides of Beimen Street. He easily found iron boxes similar to cans one after another under the walls on both sides, on the steps, and even on the windowsills of private houses. Most of these iron boxes They were all disguised, but there were also a small number of them that had no time to disguise themselves and were just placed on the windowsill.
Some Japs found the iron box, but the funny thing was that the little Japs who found the iron box really thought it was a can and secretly put it into his bag. He Shuya saw with his own eyes that a Japs second lieutenant also put an iron box into his bag. Putting away his satchel, He Shuya couldn't help but smile when he saw this scene.
However, He Shuya's smile looked cold.
The next moment, He Shuya suddenly shouted: "Give me the order to detonate!"
Liuchen had already stood next to the detonator and put his hand on the handle of the detonator. After hearing He Shuya's order, he pressed down the handle of the detonator without hesitation.
After pressing the detonator, Liuchen immediately turned to look out the window.
After about two or three seconds, clusters of red light bloomed continuously under the walls, on the steps and even on the windowsills on both sides of Beimen Street. The sound of these explosions was not violent, but accompanied by With the sound of explosion, more than a thousand iron nails and steel balls flew out of each iron box in a fan shape, fiercely shooting at the Japanese infantry marching on the street.
This was so powerful that in an instant, the Japanese marching on the street fell down one after another.
The second battalion of guards lined the street less than 500 meters away and planted at least 500 anti-infantry directional mines.
Five hundred directional landmines exploded on the street less than 500 meters away. The effect was simply insane.